CVE-2017-13098

HIGH

Bouncycastle Bc-java < 1.59 - Information Disclosure

Title source: rule

Description

BouncyCastle TLS prior to version 1.0.3, when configured to use the JCE (Java Cryptography Extension) for cryptographic functions, provides a weak Bleichenbacher oracle when any TLS cipher suite using RSA key exchange is negotiated. An attacker can recover the private key from a vulnerable application. This vulnerability is referred to as "ROBOT."

References (8)

Core 8

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102195

Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert-vn

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/144389

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4072

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00011.html

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://robotattack.org/

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/a00b684465b38d722ca9a3543b8af8568e6bad5c

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171222-0001/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.6625

EPSS Percentile 98.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-203

Status published

Products (3)

bouncycastle/bc-java < 1.59

Legion of the Bouncy Castle/BouncyCastle TLS <1.0.3

org.bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk15on 0 - 1.0.3Maven

Published Dec 13, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026